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I saw the difference Google’s new algorithm was making to reduce spam the very first time I tried one of the searches I do very commonly. Almost all of the old favorites I was used to ignoring because I knew that a quickly through would buy me nothing were gone. A host of new sites […]

As anyone who knows me, knows (me), I speak at a lot of conferences. I get the opportunity – and never see it as anything less than a true “thank you” opportunity – to put out my sometimes saw-toothed thoughts in front of hundreds of thousands of people a year – and they often genuinely […]

Difficulty defining IT success is one reason that failure statistics are all over the map. For example, when I compiled CRM failure stats from various sources, for 2001 to 2009, the numbers ranged from 18 percent to 70 percent. The most simplistic definition of project success and failure views looks merely schedule and budget – […]

If you’re involved with your company’s web strategy you’ve probably heard at least a few shots fired these past few days in regard to Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The opening salvo came from Chris Dixon’s post SEO is No Longer a Viable Marketing Strategy for Startups. Of the many that followed, the most notable is Danny […]

Show Me The Money! In my last post, I wrote about one aspect of the way in which I look at and learn about the HRM software vendors and outsourcing providers with whom I’ve been meeting over the last few months, namely their ambition as businesses. In this post I want to take up another important aspect of […]